by Ken Chiacchia | Apr 24, 2017 | Features
Heat Stable Vaccines Could Save Lives, Money April 26, 2017 Health care workers in low-income nations often have to deliver vaccines on rugged footpaths, via motorcycle or over river crossings. On top of this, vaccines need to be kept refrigerated or they may degrade...
by Ken Chiacchia | Nov 30, 2016 | AI, Features
Upping The Ante: Top Poker Pros Face Off With Artificial Intelligence 20-Day Contest at Rivers Casino in Pittsburgh Begins Jan. 11 Jan. 4, 2017 Four of the world’s best professional poker players will match wits with an artificial intelligence developed by Carnegie...
by Ken Chiacchia | Apr 23, 2015 | 2015Press
PSC Helps Power Human-AI Poker Match-Up Friday, April 24, 2015 First, Deep Blue came for Kasparov, besting the world’s top-ranked chess player in 1997. Then Watson beat Jeopardy!’s best and brightest in 2011. Now Claudico, a program developed at Carnegie Mellon...
by Ken Chiacchia | Feb 5, 2015 | 2015Press
Dig, Simulations on PSC’s Blacklight Suggest Extinction Refuge, Trigger for Modern Human Behavior Thursday, Feb. 5, 2015 PSC’s Blacklight supercomputer features prominently in an International Science Grid this Week story about Curtis Marean of Arizona...
by Ken Chiacchia | Jun 23, 2014 | 2014Press
PSC directors discuss role of supercomputing in Post-Gazette op/ed Monday, June 23, 2014 Michael Levine and Ralph Roskies, the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center’s scientific directors, have written an op/ed piece that appeared in yesterday’s Sunday...
